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UNITED STATES PATENT orinon.

1 JOHN KRAUSER, orf READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

IRON RAILING.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 8,038, dated April 15, 1851..

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, JOHN KRAUSER, of Reading, in the county of Berks andState of Pennsylvania, have inventednew and useful Improvements in theConstruction 'of Cast-Iron Railings; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and exact description thereof, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings and to the lettersof reference markedthereon.

The nature of my invention consists in securing the pailings tohorizontal rods :or bars of iron by meansof peculiar methods ofoperating the rods and pailings with jaws to them and in combinationwith other devices in castings herein described.

I In the accompanyingdrawings Figure 1 I is a front elevation of themodel representing in part a section of railing complete and in partshowing several modifications of the same general principle. It will beobserved in said figure that the two posts A A are cbnnected together by.means of a square rod or bar B at their top and two flat bars 0 0 attheirbottom to which bars the pailings are secured in the followingmanner.

Each pailing at the top and bottom has one or more jaws cast to itaccordlng to its width (in Fig. 1 each pailing is represented as castwith two jaws at the top and two at the bottom) said jaws havingrecesses within them as represented in Figs. 3, 4;, 5 and 6 and whichare side views of jaws and recesses made use of in the construction ofthe model.

Those parts of the pailings which are made to clasp or inclosethe rods Band 0 c in. Figs. 3, 4;, 5 and 6 I term the jaws and the spaces whichcontain the difierent rods or bar I term recessesthat in Fig. 6 is of acircular form having a small projection a, this projection I term ashoulder or bearing.

Instead of the single beariiig a. there may be several as shown at thetop of Fig. 5 at a a a. It should be observed that in Fig. 1 therecesses in the jaws a a a a a a at the top of the pailings are adaptedto the use of a square rod of iron (as shown in Flg." 6 which is an endview of one of the pailings represented in Fig. 1) which is operated inthe following manner. Having placed each end of said rod B within thehollowlugs H H at the top of the posts A A Fig.1 and turned it withreference to its sides as shown in Fig. 6 at R I proceed to place mypaillng thereon by guiding the jaws of the pailmgs shown by the dottedlines in said figure. Each pailing is in this way suspended upon the barafter which I attach thebottom of the pailing by means of jaws andrecesses on to the sides of the rod in the direction as shown in Fig. 3and likewise at the bottomof Fig. 6 where they are represented of asquare formand are adapted tothe use of two fiat bars or rods 0 0. j

The lips or front edge n n of the jaws are in this case a little widerapart than. the thickness of one of the flat bars 0 c and are placedmidway from the top and bottom of the recess within so that the firstrod drops somewhat lower than the lip ofthe jaws after being putsideways through the jaws into the recess. The upper rod 0 is thenpassed endwise successively through the recesses within the jaws of eachpailing and filling said recess the pailings are effectually kept fromretreating. The square rod B is now turned so that its sides assume aposition with respect to the recess and shoulders as seen at the top ofFig. 5. By this operation the pailings may be rendered perfectlyimmovable and may be made fast at any point on the rods, though it isnot generally desirable to turn it more than sufficient to keep itordinarily tight against the shoulders in the recess. .The upper rod orbar it will be perceived after this operation cannot pass out of thejaws, and its tension whatever it maybe is preserved by driving pinsthrough the ends of the bar in the bottom lugs H H Fig. 1 or by anyother similar device.

In order'that the pailings may be kept in their appropriateplaceswithout depending on the turning of the rod as before alluded to I usesaddles m m Fig. 1 similar to a trough and which I place over the rodsin the spaces between the pailings at top and bottom. These saddles havetenants at each end which are of a size and form and so posited as toadmit of their beng entered into the spaces in the recesses of the jawsnot filled up by the square rod as also to fill up (or nearly so)whenever desired the jaw itself. The saddle at the top of the pailingswith the tenants a b 0 is represented in Figs. 7, 8, and 9 which are topside and bottom views of the same drawn full size at one end as the topof the pailing F in Fig. 1 while the other is adapted to the jaws of theother pailings in said figure.

The saddle at the bottom of the pailing is represented in Figs. 10, 11and 12 which are top, side and bottom views of the same. The lip 64 a a(being the same in each figure) fits in and fills up the jaw and whenmade like a dove tail it may be employed to keep in the rods H H Fig. 3in the recesses when the jaws are so large as to admit of both being putsideways into the recesses at one as shown at the bottom of said figurethe dove tail may be posited at wFigs. 10, 11 and 12,

an end view of the saddle with the position of the dove tail m beingshown in Fig. 13. When the saddle is placed upon the bar or bars saiddove tail enters a corresponding recess in the edge of the rear side ofthe pailing as shown at '0 Fig. 5 which is a side View of the pailing Fin Fig. 1, and eilectually prevents the pailings from retreating fromthe bar or bars. It is apparent that by meansof saddles having suchdovetails and pailings cast with this form of jaw throughout an entiresection of railing could readily be constructed therewith. By means ofsaid saddles and the bridges 7c 70 70 Fig. 1which also serve to giveadditional strength to the jaws-a perfectly smooth rail may be formed atthe top when in any railing by means of the methods "of operating therods or bars with the pailings having jaws, recesses and bearings asdescribed herein and together with other devices in castings termedsaddles or troughs having dovetails and tenants cast to them for thepurposes herein named and this I claim whether the several parts beformed and adapted to each other and operated precisely as representedand described or otherwise the results always produced being effected bymeans equivalent to those within named.

' JOHN KRAUSER.

Witnesses present:

DAVID MEDARY, CYRUS KRAUSER.

